Adrian Gilbert

Adrian Henri

Adrian House

Adrian Houston is a tree photographer and passionate conservationist. His work has seen him travel to some of the world's most unexplored and inhospitable terrains, with his powerful photographs subsequently gracing everything from advertising campaigns to magazine covers. In 2021 he published A Portrait of the Tree, a photography book that illustrated how trees connect us all on a universal level. Adrian's work has been exhibited both at The National Gallery and The Royal Academy of Arts. When he is not travelling, he is based at his studio in Soho, central London.

Adrian Houston

Adrian J Walker was born in the bush suburbs of Sydney, Australia in the mid '70s. After his father found a camper van in a ditch, he renovated it and moved his family back to the UK, where Adrian was raised. 
 
Ever since he can remember, Adrian has been interested in three things: words, music and technology, and when he graduated from the University of Leeds, he found a career in software. His novel The End of the World Running Club, a post-apocalyptic running fable about hope, love and endurance, was a Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club choice. 
 
He lives in Aberdeen with his wife and two children. To find out more visit: http://www.adrianjwalker.com/

Adrian J. Walker

Adrian Levy

Adrian Mourby

Adrian Orchard

Adrian Penketh

Adrian Raine

Adrian Reynolds is a hugely talented illustrator who has worked on many picture books,including the wonderful Harry stories and four adventures featuring Pete and Polo. Adrian lives in Cambridge

Adrian Reynolds

Adrian Reynolds was born in South Wales, and after studying at Swansea College of Art and later at Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Adrian worked at Heffers Children's Book Shop before beginning to write and illustrate his own picture books. 
 
Adrian's very first books were published in 1997 and since then he has published more than forty titles, including the hugely popular Harry And The Bucketful Of Dinosaurs series, written by Ian Whybrow. He has won the Red House Picture Book Award and the Sheffield Children's Book Award.

Adrian Smith was born in Hackney, East London, on 27th February 1957. He joined Iron Maiden at the end of 1980. Adrian is the band member who has collaborated on the most side projects outside of Iron Maiden, as well as writing and recording a series of albums in the early '90s, before rejoining the band. Iron Maiden have sold 90 million albums, and tour the world playing to millions of fans. Onstage, Adrian uses Jackson and Gibson guitars. Offstage, he is an avid tennis player, however his main hobby is fishing. He takes his rod and gear out on tour with him wherever he goes. This is his first book.

Adrian Smith

Adrian Sykes

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed ten-book Shadows of the Apt series starting with Empire in Black and Gold, published by Tor UK. His other works for Tor UK include novels Guns of the Dawn, Children of Time, Children of Ruin and the Echoes of the Fall series starting with The Tiger and the Wolf. He has won the Arthur C Clarke and Robert Holdstock awards.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland.

Adrian Tinniswood

Adrian Webster

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Previously, he worked for the Economist for thirty-two years, including stints as its Lexington, Schumpeter and Bagehot columnist. He earned a doctorate in history from Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College. He is the author or co-author of 11 other books, including The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy made the Modern World (2021).

Adrian Wooldridge

Adriana Arden

Adriana Hunter has translated more than one hundred books, and has won or been shortlisted for numerous translation prizes, most recently as the runner-up for the 2024 Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly. She lives in Kent, England.

Adriana Hunter

Adriana Mather is the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Hang a Witch series and the Killing November series. Adriana is also an actor and producer and co-owns Zombot Pictures, a production company that makes feature films.

Adriana Mather

Adriana Rabinovich spent her childhood in Colombia, then moved to the US before coming to Britain in 1984. Following a career in design and marketing, Adriana trained at Leith's School of Food and Wine, then set up her own catering business, followed by The Little Red Barn in 1996. When her daughter was diagnosed with Coeliac disease at the age of eighteen months, Adriana used her catering and cooking knowledge to create recipes that not only worked for Ruthie's needs but appealed to children. The result is The Gluten-Free Cookbook for Kids.

Adriana Rabinovich

Adriana Trigiani is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction published in thirty-eight languages. In 2023, President Sergio Mattarella of Italy named her Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia. She is an award-winning playwright, television writer/producer, and filmmaker. Among her screen credits, Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture adaptation of her debut novel, Big Stone Gap. Adriana grew up in Appalachia, in the mountains of southwest Virginia, where she cofounded the Origin Project, an in-school writing program. Trigiani is honored to serve on the New York State Council on the Arts. She lives in Greenwich Village with her family. 
 
 Listen to Adriana and the luminaries of our times discuss the books that built their souls on the You Are What You Read podcast, available everywhere. https://linktr.ee/youarewhatyoureadpodcast

Adriana Trigiani

Adrienne Adhami is a leading well-being coach and keynote speaker, known for the motivational podcast Power Hour and the Modern Wellness Podcast. 
 
Adrienne is a sought-after brand advisor, specialising in well-being technology, strategy and innovation. She has delivered workshops and keynote speeches to brands including Apple, Spotify, Bupa and Range Rover. Her expertise ranges from achieving high performance to goal-setting and decision-making. 
 
Adrienne’s debut book, Power Hour, was published in 2020 and has since been translated into four languages. Listed as one of the ‘Top 25 Black Entrepreneurs to Watch’ by HSBC and UKBBS, Adrienne is a trailblazer inspiring individuals and organisations to reach their full potential. Decisions That Matter is her second book.

Adrienne Adhami

In 1995 Adrienne Brodeur co-founded, along with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, the National Magazine Award-winning fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story. She then worked as a book editor in New York for several years, and is currently the Executive Director of the Aspen Words, a literary non-profit and part of the Aspen Institute in Colorado. She divides her time between New York City and Cape Cod.

Adrienne Brodeur

Adrienne Brodeur is the author of the memoir Wild Game, which is in development as a Netflix film. She founded the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story with Francis Ford Coppola, and currently serves as executive director of Aspen Words, a literary nonprofit and program of the Aspen Institute. She splits her time between Cambridge and Cape Cod, where she lives with her husband and children.

As well as hosting the weekly Power Hour podcast, Adrienne Adhami is a leading wellness professional, TEDx speaker and a voice of inspiration, encouragement and motivation. Adrienne delivers talks and workshops to some of the world’s largest organisations and she regularly hosts live events and panel discussions. She has partnered with brands such as Adidas, Origins, Virgin Sport, Google and Apple and has been featured in ELLE magazine and the Telegraph, as well as being named a ‘New Face of Wellness’ by British VOGUE.

Adrienne Herbert

Adrienne Kennaway

Twenty-Four Books for Advent contains stories from Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, L. M. Montgomery, O. Henry and Susan Coolidge, as well as many more beloved classic writers.

Advent Authors

ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over twenty-five years ago and has published more than 80 titles. Ithaka was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Chirldren's Book Award. She lives in Manchester with her husband and has two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren.

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Paige Toon

‘Genuinely unputdownable’ MILLY JOHNSON 
‘Simply beautiful’ GIOVANNA FLETCHER 
‘Heart-wrenching and heart-warming’ BETH O'LEARY 
‘It is one of the most beautifully emotional books I’ve read, so tender and full of warmth and love’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN 
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TWO EPIC LOVE STORIES. ONE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE. 
 
Six summers ago 
 
Liv and Finn meet working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their futures full of promise. When a night of passion ends in devastating tragedy they are bound together inextricably. But Finn's life is in LA with his band, and Liv's is in Cornwall with her family - so they make a promise. Finn will return every year, and if they are single they will spend the summer together. 
 
This summer 
 
Liv crosses paths with Tom - a mysterious new arrival in her hometown. As the wildflowers and heather come into bloom, they find themselves falling for one another. For the first time Liv can imagine a world where her heart isn't broken every year. 
 
Now Liv must make an impossible choice. And when she discovers the shocking reason that Tom has left home, she'll need to trust her heart even more . . . 
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Praise for Seven Summers: 
 
'Romantic and sweeping, raw and real. This book has even more of Paige’s magic than usual’ Lucy Vine 
 
‘Full of characters you can’t help but fall for. . .this deeply emotional love story is one you’ll find impossible to forget' Heat Magazine 
 
‘With a gorgeous seaside setting in Cornwall and plenty of emotional punch, this is a beautiful love story from the Queen of the Tear-jerker’ Best 
 
'Paige Toon breaks your heart then stitches it back together with expert hands' Carley Fortune 
 
‘Poignant, passionate and powerful, this unforgettable story will sweep you away on a giant wave of emotion’ Milly Johnson 
 
‘Epic, emotional, uplifting! Perfect Paige!’ Heidi Swain 
 
‘An epic love story that will keep you guessing until the very last page’ Lucy Diamond 
 
‘A powerful love story’ The Sun 
 
‘Heart-rending’ MyWeekly 
 
‘Happiness and heartbreak, desperate dilemmas and delicious descriptions of the Cornish coast. I had no idea how this book was going to end. It’s going to be huge!’ Jill Mansell 
 
'Heart-warming and heart-breaking [...] I dare you to put this book down' Jo Watson 
 
‘You can smell the sea and feel the blissful ache of the characters’ hearts with the turn of every page. Magical’ Catherine Isaac 
 
'She reaches into your heart and pulls it right out. Seven Summers is the ultimate love story' Annabel Monaghan 
 
'Heart-wrenching, but heartening' Woman 
 
‘An emotional rollercoaster like no other, Seven Summers undid me!’ Zoë Folbigg 
 
'Paige Toon's romances are always powerful and poignant and never fail to leave me clutching her book to my chest' Mia Sheridan 
 
‘Seven Summers warms your heart, shatters it in pieces, then puts it back together again and again’ Abby Jimenez 
 
‘Paige Toon has spun a deeply layered story of hope and heartache that swept me away. I loved it’ K.A. Tucker 
 
‘With a cracking plot, this is a heart-wrenching story of love and loss’ Candis 
 
‘I don’t think I’ll ever get over this book’ Emily Stone 
 
‘This gorgeous tale of soulmates who meet every summer ripped my heart to shreds and then put it back together’ Rachel Johns 
 
'An uplifting homage to the power of love' Platinum 
 
'A beautiful story of life and love and loss’ CultureFly 
 
‘A romance novel set in summer in Cornwall? Sign us up!’ Cosmo 
 
Paige Toon, Sunday Times bestselling author, April 2023

Seven Summers

Trisha Ashley

Readers have fallen in love with The Wedding Dress Repair Shop: 
 
***** 'A brilliant escape read to indulge in over the summer holidays' 
***** 'Amazing and warm, I couldn't put the book down' 
***** 'A wonderful tale of reconnection and the triumph of the human spirit. More please!' 
 
Can her heart be mended too? 
 
After losing her fiancé and her dream job in the same week, Garland Fairford's life is turned upside down. 
 
Having recently met a long-lost relative - Honey Fairford - through her work as a historical costumier, Garland is intrigued when Honey reveals she is opening a Wedding Dress museum in Lancashire. With nothing to lose, Garland accepts the offer of a job there. 
 
What she doesn't expect is to come face-to-face with a ghost from her past - her old friend, Thom, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. 
 
As Garland begins reading the stories behind each of the beautiful wedding dresses, and sets about repairing both them and her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after? 
 
'Trademark Trisha, at her absolute finest!' Heidi Swain 
'The perfect summer escape' Candis 
'The perfect escape from real life' Debbie Johnson 
'Feel-good fiction filled with friendship, community spirit and a dash of romance' CultureFly 
'Vintage Trisha Ashley. An absorbing treat' Sue Moorcroft

The Wedding Dress Repair Shop

Carly Robyn

Some things burn hot on and off the track… 
 
A tumultuous season filled with reckless driving, drunken debauchery, and more bad press than a kinky politician leaves five-time Formula One World Champion Blake Hollis in desperate need of an image overhaul. To redeem his tarnished reputation, his team decides it’s time for drastic measures. Their solution: a tell-all book that showcases his illustrious career and presents a more respectable public persona. 
 
Enter Ella Gold, a once-renowned sportswriter and podcast host desperate for a fresh start. She accepts the challenge of writing Blake’s biography knowing that getting close to the brooding Brit will be challenging. But interviewing Blake can’t be worse than staying in NYC where rumours of her podcast’s demise follow her like a bad Hinge date. 
 
As they spend the season together, sparks fly, barriers break, and their dynamic shifts from antagonistic to something entirely unexpected. Throughout twenty-one races around the world, they’ll face the ultimate interview question: can they write their own happy ending, or is their love destined to crash and burn?

Drive Me Crazy

Jodie Chapman

Meet Jen, Isobel and Zelda. 
 
JEN 
My body is not my own. Others make life and death decisions on my behalf. 
 
ISOBEL 
My place is to be secondary to the man in my life. 
 
ZELDA 
If I break the rules I will be sorry. 
 
But this is not a dystopia. This is not the future or the past or a fantasy. It is real and it is happening now. 
 
Three women. Three lives. One chance to break free ...

Oh, Sister

The powerful new novel from the author of Another Life

Rachel Marks

From their very first date, Jamie and Lucy know they've met THE ONE. 
They're as different as night and day. Jamie's a home bird, while Lucy's happiest on holiday. He has a place for everything - she can never find her keys. Yet, somehow, they make each other happier than they ever thought possible. 
So why does this story start with them saying 'goodbye'? 
And does this really have to be the end. . . ?

Hello, Stranger

Lulu Moore

She's rowing for Cambridge. He's rowing for Oxford. A boat race to go down in history. 
 
Arthur Osbourne-Cloud has always had his future mapped out for him &ndash; graduate Oxford and follow his dreadful father into politics. Except Arthur wants to do anything but that. He&rsquo;s more than happy filling his days rowing for golds at the Olympics or World Championships, and this year he has The Boat Race to win. 
 
Kate Astley also has her future mapped out &ndash; the next six years at least. Fly half-way across the world, and win a scholarship at Cambridge University to study medicine. Oh, and become a crew member for the legendary Boat Race. Seems simple enough. But then she meets Arthur. 
 
For Arthur, this feisty American challenges everything he's been taught to believe, while Kate battles between what she wants to do, and what she&rsquo;s expected to do. The bitter rivalry between their schools is destined to destroy them, but it&rsquo;s only a matter of time before they give in to the sizzling chemistry bubbling between them. 
 
Then the reality of their future comes knocking. In The Boat Race, there can only be one winner. Who will sink and who will swim?

Oar Than Friends

Armistead Maupin

Originally published as a series of columns in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tales of the City is the landmark series by Armistead Maupin. The novels chronicle the life of Mary Anne Singleton after she impulsively moves to San Fransicso, following her adventures in the city as she is guided by friends and lovers.

The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
&lsquo;A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh.... It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly&rsquo; Edmund White, Times Literary Supplement 
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When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there&rsquo;s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbour, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Babycakes

Tales of the City 4

The third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
&lsquo;An enormously talented writer&hellip; By writing about what's seemingly different Armistead Maupin always manages to capture what's so hilariously painfully true for all of us&rsquo; Amy Tan 
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The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchor-woman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at the National Gay Rodeo, DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track a charismatic psychopath across Alaska, and society columnist Prue Giroux loses her heart to a derelict living in a San Francisco park. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Further Tales Of The City

Tales of the City 3

Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. 
 
But the cottage is for sale so this is the last time they'll all be here together. They can't bear to break their best friends' hearts so they'll fake it for one more week. But how can you pretend to be in love - and get away with it - in front of the people who know you best?

Happy Place

The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
'Perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced&rsquo; Salon 
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A touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh starts, the City by the Bay welcomes back Mary Ann Singleton, the beloved Tales of the City heroine who started it all. A new chapter begins in the lives of both Mary Ann and Michael &lsquo;Mouse&rsquo; Tolliver when she returns to San Francisco to rejoin her oldest friend after years in New York City&hellip; the reunion that fans of Maupin&rsquo;s beloved Tales of the City series have been awaiting for years. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Mary Ann in Autumn

Tales of the City 8

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
'Tender-hearted and frolicsome&hellip; A tale of long-lost friends and unrealised dreams, of fear and regret, of penance and redemption, and of the unshakeable sense that this world we love, this life we live, this drama on which we all play, does indeed go by much too fast&rsquo; New York Times 
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Nearly two decades after ending his iconic Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver&mdash;the fifty-five-year-old sweet-spirited gardener and survivor of the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers&mdash;for a single day at once mundane and extraordinary... and filled with the everyday miracles of living. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Michael Tolliver Lives

Tales of the City 7

The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
&lsquo;Entertains, illuminates&hellip; A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior&rsquo; Washington Post 
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The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all&mdash;without ever leaving home. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

More Tales Of The City

Tales of the City 2

Annie Crown

The bookworm and the basketball player are about to meet their match. 
 
Kendall Holiday spends her Fridays exactly where she wants to be: ensconced in a romance novel in an empty college library working the graveyard shift. The quiet of the library is dependable, and gives Kendall an excellent excuse for skipping out on the loud, raucous start to the weekend. Lost in the pages of her favorite love stories, Kendall blocks out the world--until Vincent Knight, the school's star basketball player, turns up.Handsome, tall, and extremely popular, Vincent's a standout on the court, but he's out of his depth in the stacks: he's got an urgent assignment due and doesn't have a clue where to start. When his meet-cute with Kendall turns into a steamy make-out session, neither are quite prepared for what comes next.Opposites might attract in romance novels . . . but it takes a lot more truth than tropes to make it work in real life.

Night Shift

The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
&lsquo;Some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read&rsquo; Guardian 
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Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world&rsquo;s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship and sexual nostalgia. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Significant Others

Tales of the City 5

The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
‘Maupin's adeptness at fluid dialogue, his flair for shaping characters who thread the needle between pop archetypes and singular human beings… are all on display’ New York Times 
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A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is Armistead Maupin’s addictively entertaining observation on family, friendship and every relationship in between. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1980s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Sure Of You

Tales of the City 6

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, is an uproariously moving novel and an indelible portrait of cultural change from the seventies. 
 
Named as one of the BBC’s 100 Most Inspiring Novels, a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick and Britain’s favourite gay/lesbian novel from The Big Gay Read 
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Originally serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 1970s, Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City afforded a mainstream audience of millions its first exposure to straight and gay characters experiencing on equal terms the follies of urban life. 
 
Among the cast of this ground-breaking saga are the lovelorn residents of 28 Barbary Lane: the bewildered but aspiring Mary Ann Singleton, the libidinous Brian Hawkins; Mona Ramsey, still in a sixties trance, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr. Right; and their marijuana-growing landlady, the indefatigable Mrs. Madrigal. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads them through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

Tales Of The City

The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin&rsquo;s best-selling San Francisco saga. 
 
'Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been&rsquo; Booklist (starred review) 
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Now ninety-two, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her &lsquo;logical family&rsquo; in San Francisco. Some members of that family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada&rsquo;s Black Rock Desert but Anna has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. There she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to some unfinished business she has long avoided. 
 
Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

The Days of Anna Madrigal

Tales of the City 9

Alice Winn

It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that Ellwood is in love with him, always has been. When Gaunt's German mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, he signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. 
 
The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him. In the trenches, Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, but their friends are all dying, right in front of them, and at any moment they could be next. 
 
An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

In Memoriam

Kristina Forest

Violet's career might be flourishing but her life is in shambles. 
 
After surviving a public breakup with her ex-fiancé, Violet is now determined to focus on her career. But the universe has other ideas . . . 
 
Xavier Wright did not expect to run into his high school girlfriend on a trip to Vegas. But in a bid to laugh it off they decide to celebrate together. They feel young and reckless as they party the night away - when the next morning, they wake up next to each other with rings on their fingers. 
 
Their impulsive Vegas wedding might be a blessing in disguise. Could this be their chance to finally get a happy ending or will they go down in flames?

The Partner Plot

Monica Murphy

Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn&rsquo;t talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett&rsquo;s dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of a band that hasn't been popular for years. 
Tate, after years of alcohol-fuelled partying is sober and ready for a comeback. He is in top form at Scarlett&rsquo;s party and blows the audience away with his performance&mdash;though Scarlett herself still isn&rsquo;t impressed. But an encounter ends in a kiss that surprises them both&mdash;and immediately goes viral.

Lonely For You Only

A Lancaster Prep Novel

Amy Lea

In a last ditch attempt to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? Burly fisherman Evan Whaler - who single-handedly disproves the theory that canadians are 'nice'. 
 
After a boating incident lands Evan in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his fiancee by his welcoming yet quirky family. And, in exchange for Evan's help with her social media content, Mel agrees to fake their engagement for just one week. 
 
But reeling in their budding feelings for each other proves more difficult than expected. 
 
Is Mel willing to sacrifice her picture-perfect life in the city for a chance at true love in the wild?

The Catch

Erin Doom

A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH 
 
Legend speaks of the Maker of Tears: a man with eyes like glass, who crafts all the fears that dwell in people's hearts . . . What will it take for star-crossed orphans Nica and Rigel to face him and his creations? 
 
---- 
 
Growing up within the walls of Grave's Orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. Including that of The Tearsmith, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of having forged all the fears and anxieties in the world.When at seventeen, she's adopted by Mr and Mrs Mulligan, Nica thinks she's leaving her world of dark fairy tales behind her. 
 
But the Mulligans also adopt Rigel, an orphan who is as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled. They share a past filled with grief and isolation, and the ever-gentle Nica starts to fall for her forbidden love. 
 
However it isn’t long until the fears and the darkness of her childhood threaten to unravel her future. 
Can Nica find the courage to embrace the future?Forget her past?And fall for her secret love? 
 
No. 1 Italian bestseller, Il Librario

The Tearsmith

Han Kang

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. 
 
Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages. 
 
Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish - the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity - their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to expression. 
 
Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive. 
 
Translated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon.

Greek Lessons

Hannah Cowan

Everyone knew the rules. 
Gracie Hutton was off-limits. 
But Tyler's never been one to follow rules. 
And now she's about to become his ultimate sin. 
 
Tyler Bateman doesn't know what easy means. He's never had an easy day in his damn life. Everything he has he's worked for. Blood, sweat, and tears. 
Hockey is his escape, a passion he never knew he could possess. He wants to succeed. He wants to prove that he's worth something. 
 
He wasn't expecting her to matter. He didn't want her to. But she had other plans, and now his best friend's sister is about to ruin his life. 
 
And he might just let her.

Blissful Hook

L. J. Shen

From L.J. Shen, the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Reckless, comes a brand new book in the All Saints series. 
Underneath the goody two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her? 
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn't. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey's picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. She's becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew. 
Lev Cole is so golden, he's got the Midas Touch. Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché. But with a girlfriend he doesn't love and a career path he doesn't value, Lev is coasting. 
The only two things he cares about, Bailey and becoming a pilot, are out of reach. 
 
But Lev is done being satisfied with the life others have chosen for him. He wants to pick his own cards. To demolish the seamless kingdom of lies his family stitched together on the ruins his mother left behind. 
The question is, can he save his best friend and his dream before too much damage is done?

Damaged Goods

AdalynI’ve been planning my trip across the world for years. So, imagine my surprise and utter disappointment when unforeseen circumstances leave me with no travel companion and a wallet too empty to reschedule. Far too stubborn to cancel, and left with little options, I turn to the only person who just so happens to have the entire summer free.Cooper White is my older brother’s best friend. He’s the fixer. The sweet one with all the right words. I expect him to be boring and quiet. But with each day we spend together, I’m learning that there’s more to him than meets the eye. We quickly become best friends, but one drunken night is all it takes to change everything.And now . . . now he’s my husband.CooperAdalyn Hutton is an enigma. I never expected us to grow so close so fast, but she’s impossible to keep at a distance. Each day spent with her slowly chips at the wall I built between us until there’s nothing left of it but rubble.Considering my friendship with her brother, accidentally marrying her should be the mistake of a lifetime. But it feels like the opposite. There’s no turning back now. One glance at my ring finger and I’m reminded of the promise we made to one another, and I can’t seem to look away.

Her Greatest Adventure

I&rsquo;m the face of the NHL. The golden boy with quick hands and a million-dollar smile that the fans adore. My contract is up at the end of the season, and with playoffs starting, I have to be on my best behaviour. Keep my head down and respect the press when they shove their microphones beneath my nose. This isn&rsquo;t my first rodeo, so it should be easy. Right?No. Not this time. One bad call and I&rsquo;m the poster boy for poor decisions.I haven&rsquo;t seen my childhood best friend since the day her father betrayed me and she broke my heart. Now, eight years later, she&rsquo;s back. And she&rsquo;s my fake girlfriend for the next two months.Some wounds never heal, and the moment I see Braxton Heights, I know mine have not. But she&rsquo;s the only shot I have at saving my reputation and securing my new deal, and while I might have lost her all those years ago, I refuse to lose hockey.I just hope I&rsquo;m strong enough not to fall for her all over again in the process.

Her Greatest Mistake

Tinsley Lowry is my obsession. Tinsley Lowry could be my downfall. I've known Tinsley since we were children, two souls tangled in a bond that defied explanation. Her name echoes in my mind like a song. The world sees me as a rockstar, but it's her who sees the parts of me I've kept hidden from everyone else.When Tinsley joins me on my tour, and we travel from city to city, a nagging feeling grows that someone is lurking in the shadows, watching her, waiting for her. The protectiveness I've always felt for her is driving me to insanity.With each day that passes, it becomes clearer that I want more. My need for her has erupted into a raging inferno. I'm not seeking redemption; I'm embracing the darkness that defines me in an effort to keep her safe.Can my obsession protect her against what I can feel coming, or will it become what devours us both?

His Greatest Muse

OAKLEY 
 
I have one goal. To be drafted into the NHL and make my father proud. I've never been interested in dating, not when all of my spare time is spent at the rink perfecting my craft. There's no time for distractions. I can't afford them. 
 
But she came out of nowhere. Octavia Layton, the girl with the pretty smile and the broken heart. One night spent talking beneath the stars and now she won't get out of my head. 
 
I never expected to see her again, but now she's here in this new city, with ties to my new team, and I don't think I'm strong enough to fight against her pull. 
 
AVA 
I hate hockey players. After a nasty breakup, I've sworn them all off for good. Or so I thought. 
 
We met when I had puffy eyes and a broken heart, but I didn't know who he was until he shows up in my city months later as a new member of our local hockey team. The sweet guy who so easily made the ache in my chest go away with lame jokes and a swoon-worthy smile is here, and he wants me. 
 
Despite everything I said I wouldn't do, I can't seem to stay away from him. But dating a future NHL player isn't the life I imagined for myself, and as things keep going wrong, I'm starting to wonder if maybe the best-made plans aren't always the ones you expect.

Lucky Hit

Adam White has been called many things but single dad was not one he expected. 
 
At twenty-three Adam’s life changed forever – suddenly he was the father to a son he never knew existed – but he’s spent the past ten years managing to raise his son and juggle his business. White Ice Training is now one of the best hockey training facilities in Vancouver. But when he recruits a new hockey trainer, she lights a flame inside of him that he thought had long since burnt out. 
 
One terrible game was all it took for Scarlett Carter to lose everything. After a career-ending injury destroys her chances of ever playing professional hockey again, she finds herself lost in a mess of broken dreams. Moving back home to Vancouver was never in the playbook. 
 
Scarlett wants to forget about the world that broke her, but a new job at White Ice won’t let that happen. The more time she spends with Adam, the harder she’s finding it to resist him. 
 
She can’t help but wonder why he cares so much about her. And more importantly, why can't she bring herself to skate away?

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